tending to argue or be bad-tempered; slightly aggressive “What do you want?” he asked, sounding slightly truculent.
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NAmE//ˈtrʌkyələns//
noun [uncountable] adverbSee truculent in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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